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On This Day, June 5: D-Day, Operation Blue Star, RFK assassination, AIDS epidemic, Marshall Plan and other key eventsOn This Day, June 5, history witnessed several defining moments across war, politics and social change. The date is associated with the D-D...- China’s Tiananmen crackdown: A timeline of 1989 eventsThirty-seven years ago, China's military violently ended pro-democracy protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. The government has never rel...
- On This Day in History June 1: From Genghis Khan and Scotch whisky to Marilyn Monroe, Superman's debut, The Beatles and other major eventsJune 1 marks significant historical moments. From Genghis Khan's capture of Peking in 1215 to the birth of Marilyn Monroe and the launch of...
- Chernobyl, 40 years since disaster: five things to knowUkraine on Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant -- the worst civilian nuclear disaster i...
- Quote of the Day by Mikhail Gorbachev: A society should never become like a pond with stagnant...—Inspiring quotes by one of the most influential political figures who sought to usher in an era of opennessQuote of the Day: Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader, warned that societies must keep moving forward. He believed stagnation was t...
- Hundreds line up to say farewell to Gorbachev; Vladimir Putin absentMikhail Gorbachev, who launched drastic reforms that helped end the Cold War and precipitated the breakup of the Soviet Union, is set to be...
- Why Mikhail Gorbachev's legacy still threatens Vladimir Putin?During his presidency, Vladimir Putin has systematically destroyed these historic achievements. On their ruins, his regime is mobilising mi...
- Putin pays tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev but won't attend his funeralKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that prior to departing for a working trip to Russia’s westernmost Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad, Puti...
- Mikhail Gorbachev's legacy: sadly, history will judge this good man harshlyGorbachev wanted to reform the Soviet system, not destroy it. He started his economic reforms by investing huge amounts in heavy industry a...
- Mikhail Gorbachev: The man who tried to free countriesBy the Great Terror of 1937, the tone for life in the Soviet Union was set. When Mikhail Gorbachev died on Tuesday, a Stalinist in Russia s...
- PM Modi condoles Gorbachev's demise, hails his contribution to strengthening India-Russia ties"I extend our deepest condolences to the family and friends of H.E. Mr. Mikhail Gorbachev, one of the leading statesmen of the 20th century...
- 1991 Russia coup: A personal as well as a political tragedy for GorbachevIn August, the conspirators placed Gorbachev and his family under house arrest at their vacation home on the Black Sea. However, their goal...
- Mikhail Gorbachev: Mourned as rare world leader by many, some still bitterReactions were mixed, with leaders in the West saluting him and many in his country blaming him for the 1991 implosion of the Soviet Union.
- Mikhail Gorbachev mourned as rare world leader but some still bitterGorbachev won the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the Cold War but although widely feted abroad, he was a pariah at home.
- Mikhail Gorbachev: The last Soviet leaderMikhail Gorbachev, who changed the course of history by triggering the demise of the Soviet Union and was one of the great figures of the 2...
- ‘Because of him … we have Pizza Hut.’ Old Mikhail Gorbachev ad resurfaces, Internet mourns Cold War heroMikhail Gorbachev, 91, passed away on Tuesday due to prolonged illness.
- Mikhail Gorbachev: His seven years that changed the worldIn nearly seven years, between March 1985 and December 1991, he changed the course of history by ending the Cold War and triggering the dem...
- Mikhail Gorbachev, man who ended the Cold War, dies at 91Gorbachev, who was in power between 1985 and 1991 and helped bring US-Soviet relations out of a deep freeze, was the last surviving Cold Wa...
- US became 'arrogant' after fall of Soviet Union: Mikhail Gorbachev"How can one count on equal relations with the United States and the West in such a position?" Gorbachev told state news agency RIA Novosti...
- Gorbachev slams Vladimir Putin, opposition vows new protestsMikhail Gorbachev, the friend-turned- foe of Vladimir Putin has slammed him for describing his opponents as "enemies of Russia".
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